At TPC in Amsterdam I gave 2 lightning talks under the title perldoc -O. It was a questionary for the attendance which should give be some orientation which feature to prioritize. I also spoke and mailed with all people I...

27497perlancar: A new distribution a day for CPAN dayperlancar2017-08-16T04:31:47Z

My contribution to celebrating CPAN Day this year is releasing at least one new distribution each day in August from day 1 to the culminating 16. Yeah, all of the distros are trivial and most of them classify as crap, but perhaps one or two are crap [...]

Still on the ICE back home from the European Perl Conference 2017 in Amsterdam I have some time to write down my thoughts on how to make Perl conferences (more) beginner friendly. I had some ...

27489Thomas Klausner (domm): Things I learned at the European Perl Conference 2017 in AmsterdamThomas Klausner (domm)2017-08-12T09:03:12Z

I'm currently riding an ICE along some canal through the rainy Netherlands. What a perfect opportunity to write my summary of the European Perl Conference 2017 in Amsterdam. My talks As I was ...

27478Chris Travers: On Contempt Culture, a Reply to Aurynn ShawChris Travers2017-08-10T05:15:00ZI saw an interesting presentation recorded and delivered on LinkedIn on contempt culture by Aurynn Shaw, delivered this year at PyCon. &nbsp;I had worked with Aurynn on projects back when she used to work for Command Prompt. &nbsp;You can watch the video below:<br />
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27477CPAN Testers: Metabase API ChangeoverCPAN Testers2017-08-09T21:00:55Z

Summary: I will be doing work on the Metabase API on 2017-08-12. Writing test reports may be unresponsive for a few minutes, and there may be bugs. Please let me know if there are any problems submitting test reports.

Yesterday I was interviewed on Coder Intros. This is a copy of the interview. Here's the original. Coder Intros showcases coders as awesome yet real and flawed human beings, so that others can become interested and invested in coding.

Two weeks ago, I introduced you to my new module SVG::TrafficLight and hinted that there were more SVG-based modules to follow. Today, I’d like to talk about the next one – SVG::Timeline. It all started over a year ago when I was looking through some [...]

Over the last weeks I’ve had the chance to work full time on Perl 6, and have dedicated this time to improving the MoarVM specializer. Since “specializer” is such a lot to type, but shortening it to “spec” would result … Continue reading →

27467Thomas Klausner (domm): What I expect from a Web FrameworkThomas Klausner (domm)2017-08-05T13:47:49Z